About the Book by N. P. Verkhovsky «Railway Confusion». Part 3

Abstract

News from the archives

The final part of the article published in two previous issues.

Let us remind that in 1910 the experienced railway manager Nikolai Petrovich Verkhovsky presented in the 8th  Department of the Imperial Russian Technical Society the book «Railway Confusion» written by him, dedicated to the comprehensive solution of a wide range of pressing issues of organising the work of railways.

In the third part published in this issue, the emphasis is on the functions of the so-called local government councils within the railways and under the auspices of administrators of railways, role of the divisions of the traffic control within the railway companies and on countering the thefts and misappropriations. The speaker also commented on the organisation of the railway companies regarding the staff, and summed up his report with his main thoughts about the importance of railways.

Punctuation and vocabulary of the author are preserved in the text as much as possible.